This tic did not come out of nowhere: Kakutani has been rating books’ deeply feltness for almost three decades now. Nor in the world of book reviews is it exclusive to her. Her colleague Janet Maslin has used the phrase a couple times in the last few years. But Kakutani’s use of the phrase has been accelerating lately at an alarming rate. In the last three years alone, Kakutani has used the phrase at least 19 times, including once (last month) to describe baseball and once just as I was writing this post. If she continues at this rate, 2013 will soon be the most deeply felt year of all time.

Below we’ve rounded up more than 30 years of Kakutani’s “deeply felt” books and people, spanning at least 39 different titles and one baseball player. Please note: We may not have found all of them.

1. The Book Class by Louis Auchincloss: “Mr. Auchincloss implies that such rules were once the glue that held together a stern, but deeply felt system of ethical values.” (July 26, 1984)

2. Family and Friends by Anita Brookner: “In her finest work, in this reader's view, Look at Me, Miss Brookner has used her keen sense of irony to limn this deeply felt, if somewhat limited, theme with clarity and moral vigor….” (Oct. 12, 1985)

4. Riven Rockby T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Although two powerful stories in his 1989 collection Ifthe River Was Whiskey point to his ability to write about deeply felt emotions, he has thus far failed to explore this territory convincingly in his longer fiction.” (Jan. 20, 1998)

5. The Hunters by Claire Messud: “The first, which recalls Cynthia Ozick's story Rosa, is a limpid, deeply felt account of a former war refugee's life in Toronto....” (Aug. 14, 2001)

8. You Shall Know Our Velocityby Dave Eggers: “There is a similar sense of grief buried deep within Velocity… but it's depicted in such melodramatic, cartoonish terms that it never acquires the deeply felt emotion of the events in Staggering Genius.” (Oct 8, 2002)

10. Memorialby Bruce Wagner: “[T]he result is a panoramic if sometimes unwieldy novel that showcases Mr. Wagner's ability not only to write savage, often very funny satire, but also to create deeply felt, sympathetic characters….” (Sept 5, 2006)

13. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore: “It is a novel that illustrates just how far Ms. Moore has come in the last two and half decades from her keenly observed but jokey 1985 collection of stories, “Self-Help,” which showcased her gifts as a writer but also underscored her—and her characters’—emotional reticence, their reluctance to open themselves to deeply felt experiences.” (Aug. 27, 2009)

14. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem: “It is coy where Solitude was earnest, juvenile and mannered where Solitude was deeply felt.” (Oct. 12, 2009)

16. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrongby Terry Teachout: “This belief in music as a deeply felt and personal expression is one reason Armstrong avoided using musical terminology when speaking about his work….” (Nov. 23, 2009)

17. True Compass: A Memoirby Edward M. Kennedy: “The late Massachusetts senator writes movingly in this deeply felt autobiography…. “ (Nov. 27, 2009) (This article was co-written with Janet Maslin and Dwight Garner, but presumably the “deeply felt” was from Kakutani, who also reviewed the book separately.)

23. My Father at 100by Ron Reagan: “Now, on the occasion of what would have been the former president’s 100th birthday, his youngest son, Ron Reagan, has written a deeply felt memoir….’” (Jan. 27, 2011)

26. The Orphan Master’s Sonby Adam Johnson: “Mr. Johnson does an agile job of combining fablelike elements with vivid emotional details to create a story that has both the boldness of a cartoon and the nuance of a deeply felt portrait.” (Jan. 12, 2012)

27. The Newlywedsby Nell Freudenberger: “Unlike her synthetic partnership with George, these are real, complex, deeply felt connections that have both endured and changed over time….” (April 24, 2012)

29. Joseph Anton: A Memoirby Salman Rushdie: “Although this volume can be long-winded and self-important at times, it is also a harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document….” (Sept. 17, 2012)

30. The Casual Vacancyby J.K. Rowling: “The reader can only hope she doesn’t try to flesh out the Muggle world of Pagford in any further volumes, but instead moves on to something more compelling and deeply felt in the future.” (Sept. 27, 2012)

31. Who I Amby Pete Townshend: “He makes a powerful case for that argument—and the Who’s contribution to the cause—in the pages of this deeply felt but often ungainly book.” (Oct. 8, 2012)

35. We Need New Namesby NoViolet Bulawayo: “’When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky,’ NoViolet Bulawayo writes in her deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” (May 15, 2013)

36. The Panopticonby Jenni Fagan: “By its not-that-surprising conclusion, The Panopticon has evolved from a self-conscious debut experiment into a deeply felt and genuinely affecting novel.” (July 15, 2013)

39. Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees: “Such outpourings of love are a testament to the intimate and deeply felt karmic relationship that has developed over two decades between Rivera and Yankee fans, and New York City.” (Sept. 28, 2013)

40. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. “Ms. Tartt’s theatrical, almost willful dwelling on the gothic in The Secret History has given way here to a deeply felt awareness of mortality and the losses that define the human condition….” (Oct. 7, 2013)